IN WHICH OLD FRIENDS MEET When Ellery came down to breakfast the rain was over, the wind had gone down, and the morning sunshine was pouring in at the dining-room windows.

Outside the lilacs were in bud, the bluebirds were singing, and there was a sniff of real spring in the air.

The storm was at an end and yet the young minister was conscious of a troublesome feeling that, for him, it was just beginning.
However, he had determined while dressing to make a clean breast of it to his housekeeper--a nominally clean breast, that is.

There were some things he would not tell her, some that he would not speak of to anyone, the picture in the doorway for instance.

True, it was only a picture and of no moment, but it was pleasant to remember.